The World is Flat (Updated and Expanded Edition) has two new additions: First, The Right Stuff, is the author’s answer to what he calls the most common question that he gets from American parents: “What do I tell my kids?” The other, The Globalization of the Local, is his response to the so-called ignorance of the cultural aspects of the flattening of the world in the earlier version.

The Right Stuff is about the skills and qualities that could help American children compete in the flat world. In a nutshell, it is an expansion of Henry Adam’s observation decades back — “they know enough who know how to learn.” These are accompanied by liberal doses of phrases of the Friedman variety — the new middle, the right stuff and the formula: CQ+PQ>IQ, where C stands for curiosity and P for passion. Globalization of the Local, on the other hand, focuses on the cultural aspects of globalization. The argument in this chapter has freshness — the fear that globalization could mean Americanization has been proved to be incorrect, and that has happened due to one of Friedman’s ten flatteners: Uploading or the ability of individuals across the world to create their own content.

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			Authors: Thomas L. Friedman Pages: 569 Price: $5.99 Publisher: Penguin